Sintered hard metal alloy



Patented Sept. 24, 1935 snv'rnman 1mm) mm mm! Karl Schrfiter, Berlin-Lichtenberg, Kurt Ar e,

Berlin-Lichterfelde-Ost, Kurt 'hloeis, Berlin- Steglitz, and Hans Wolfl Berlin, Germany, as-

gmnents,

signors, by mcsne ass! General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., a corporation of New York No Drawing. Application March 24, 1932, Serial No. 601,042. In Germany July 18, 1931 The invention relates to sintered hard metal alloys.

A number of hard metal alloys suitable for the manufacture of working tools and implements 5 for machining purposes have been proposed the most satisfactory of these, from 'the standpoint of machining at high cutting speed and with small wear the hardest and toughest materials, such as cast iron or manganese steel, being a sintered mixture of tungsten carbide and anadditional auxiliary metal of the iron group and of a lower melting point. Experience has shown, however, that in machining less hard materials, such as ordinary steel, this alloy and similar alloys are not always the most suitable ones in technical respects. For, when tools of such a composition are used for machining purposes, sometimes crater-like holes occur at the cutting edges which holes more and more enlarge in the course of the machining operation and very soon destroy the tools.

The primary object of the present invention is to overcome this drawback to a very large extent and to produce working tools and implements of the kind stated which are suitable Ior a very economical machining of less hard materials, such as ordinary steel; that is, machining at very high cutting speed and with very small wear. As exhaustive researches and tests have shown, this object is achieved by employing for the tools a hard alloy which contains, at least as a part or the component of higher melting point, a hard titanium compound, the percentage of auxiliary metal of lower melting point depending on the work to be done by the tool in the special case.

Alloys of this type may for instance have the following composition: 75% titanium carbide and 25% nickel, or 95% titanium carbide and 5% cobalt.

In such an alloy part of the titanium carbide may be replaced by tungsten carbide without interfering with the advantageous properties oi. these alloys as to prevention of the above-mentioned crater-like holes. 0n the other hand this substitution results in the further particular advantage that the alloys thereby acquire the high toughness peculiar to the sintered hard alloys hitherto used containing tlmgsten carbide and auxiliary metals. This toughness admits of titanium carbide, 3% titanium nitride, 85% tungmachining even with shocks and blows exerted on the tool as for instance in turning surfaces interrupted by grooves, gaps or the like. So, for instance, tools'oif the following composition give excellent results: 10% titanium carbide, 75% 5 sten carbide, 5% cobalt.

Alloys of the composition hereinbefore described are capable of machining less hard materials, such as ordinary steel, at very high cutting speeds and with small wear, and thus under very satisfactory economical conditions. In addition, the present alloys are capable of very satisfactorily machining the hardest and toughest materials. Finally, they are well suited not only for material-detaching work but may be employed also for other implements such as drawing dies, and even for working parts of machinery which are exposed simultaneously to high temperatures and pressures, such as hot pressing dies. 30

' The shaping and sintering of the present alloys may be carried out by the methodpreviously used for other sintered metal carbide alloys. The sintering thus may take place either subsequent to the pressing of the powdered mixture forming the 35 starting material, or together with the pressing operation.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:--

1. An alloy consisting substantially of 60 to timgsten carbide, about 10 to 30% oftitanium compolmd from the group titanium carbide, titanium nitride, titanium boride, and an appreciable amount up to about 25% of metal from the iron group. 45

2. An alloy consisting substantially of 60 to 85% tungsten carbide, about 10 to 30% titanium carbide and an appreciable amount up to about 25% of metal from the iron group.

3. An alloy consisting substantially or 60 to 50 85% tungsten carbide, about 10'to 50% titanium nitride and an appreciable mount up to about 25% or metal from the iron group.

4.Ana1loy consisting substantlallyotfitlto 5 85% tungsten carbide, about to 30% titanmm boride, and'an appreciable amount up to about 25% of metal from the iron group.

5. An alloy consisting substantially of 75% tungsten carbide, 10% titanium carbide and amountupto about% oimetaii'romtheiron 8. A sintered compontion consisting substantially or 60 to 85% tungsten carbide, about 10 to titanium nitride and an appreciable amount up to about 25% of metal from the iron 9. A sintered composition substantiaily 01-60 to 85% tungsten carbide, about 10 nickel.

6. A sintered composition consisting substantially or to tungsten carbide, about 10 to 30% of titanium compound from the group titanium carbide, titanium nitride, titanium boride, and an appreciable amount up to about 25% of metal from the iron group.

7. A' sintered composition consisting substanfo 30% titanium boride, and an appreciable o amount up to about 25% of metali'rom the iron,

10. A sintered composition consisting substantially of 15% tungsten carbide, 10% titanium carbide and 15% nickel.

KURT AGTE. tialiy 0f 60 b0 85% tungsten carbide, about 10 KURT oms to 30% titanium carbide and an appreciable HANS WOLFE cannons or coarse-rice.

Patent No. 2,015,556. September 24 1935,

I KARL scrm orse, s1- AL.

It 'is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, second column, after line 15, insert the following as claim 11:

'11. A hard alloy consisting of 30% titanium carbide, 60%tungsten carbide,

and 10% cobalt.-; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. 7'

Signed and sealed this 3rd day ofMarch, A. D. 1936.

Leslie Frazer (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.

CERTIFICATE or comc'rion.

Patent No. 2,015,556. September 24 1935 ll KARL SCHROTER, ET AL.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification oi the above numbered atent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, second column, after line 15, insert the following as claim 11:

'11. A hard alloy consisting of 50% titanium carbide, 60% tungsten carbide, and 10% cobalt.; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in th Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 3rd day of March, A. D. 1936.

Leslie irazer (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

